Forge of Empires Beginner's Tips

Forge of Empires is a browser-based strategy game that lets you create your own city and accompany it from the beginning of the Stone Age onward throughout the centuries. Read these tips, before you start the game, these tips might be helpful in the game.

Forge Point

* You need Forge Points (shown on the upper-mid of game screen) to proceed research.

* Forge Points stack up by 1 point every 1 hour.

* You can buy Forge Points not only with Diamonds but also with gold. The price goes up by 50 gold every time you buy.

Town

* You can check Battle History, change profile&city name&avatar image, and check how many goods you have by clicking the Town Hall.

* All buildings have to be connected with road to function - all roads have to be connected to the Town Hall

* You don't have to connect decorations with roads - place decorations where you can't connect roads

* Using the space wisely means building roads as less as possible

* If your provided happiness exceed approximately 140% of happiness demand, the productivity of all buildings go up to 120%

* You can move and relocate anything in your town, including the Town Hall - but cannot rotate them

* Demand for happiness = Total population

* The reason to have population = for military units, buildings construction, and gold

* There's no city wall (but yes in the near future, I hope)

* 3x2 size buildings are awesome for space efficiency – but there are only few types

Production

* You don't have to conquer a land with resources to produce goods made of them - they just provide more goods so not a requirement

* Town Hall produces 500 gold every 24 hours

* Expensive houses do not always mean they're better in gold production - calculate before you build

* Different types of houses have different times for gold production - some produce 160 gold every 4hours, some produce 13 gold every 15 min.

* 5 minute supply production relatively provides you the most - but remember you have to click every 5 minutes.

* If your provided happiness exceed approximately 140% of happiness demand, the productivity of all buildings go up to 120%

* Check how many goods you have and how many will be required in the near future - sell goods buildings ASAP if have more stocks than necessary

Research

* You don't have to research everything - check if it's required for higher tiers

* Researches that require Diamonds are additional space expansions

* The exterior of your Town Hall changes when you finish any research (1) in the next era

Battle

* Melee units fight back when attacked - but they can do so only once before a new turn arrives for that unit

* You can use above rule strategically - attack an enemy with full-health units and finish it with your almost-dead unit. Then you lose no one.

* Conquering a land does not mean you can establish another town – you just get a bonus or resource provided by that land

* Your Defending units do not die when your neighbors attack you - but your units die when YOU attack neighbors

* You can heal your military units by waiting for few hours or spending Diamonds